Immersive is an overused word in the world of videogames, but it is the most apt to describe this game. This game will convince even the most hard-hearted action-adventure or fps fan that the RPG genre is very much alive and well and thriving. Oblivion boasts one of the most richly detailed and vibrant game-worlds ever created and will no doubt appeal to anyone who has ever been a fan of RPGs. Moving into more archaic times, you get a decidedly different, RPG experience with Oblivion. You will be met with the most important of choices: save the civilisation or exploit them to allow yourself to escape their hellish world. The ‘Big daddies’ will not go down easily and you will have to take advantage of your environment as well as your mutations to finish them off once and for all. As the game progresses, the player must employ new tactics to defeat some of the more heavily armoured members of the nightmarish underwater colony.
’The Rapture’ itself is rusting and decaying, creating a city of fear without light, smeared with blood and filled the screams of its former citizens. The player will pass through the underwater buildings and harness ‘Adam’ to mutate themselves like the residents of ‘The Rapture’ to gain control of new weapons ranging from telekinesis to the ability to produce fire from your hands.
You discover that ‘The Rapture’ was once a utopian society created shortly after The Second World war for only the best scientists, doctors and artists but has been ravaged after a war over ‘Adam’, a genetic enhancement that gives people almost superhuman powers.Īs the player proceeds through the dark and violent society, they will encounter many of the mutated beings left over from the conflict, from small girls who feed off the dead to create ‘Adam’, to the ‘Big daddies’- huge biomechanical creatures armed with deadly weapons. Discovering a primitive diving bell inside the structure, you board it and travel to the bottom of the ocean and into the haunting world of ‘The Rapture’. Bioshock begins as your plane plummets into icy and uncharted waters and you are forced to enter a lighthouse oddly located in the middle of the ocean.